The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders.
Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ed.

(U. S.M. A. 1855) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 1, 1835, and entered the Engineer Corps.
At the opening of the Civil War, as first lieutenant, he served at the defense of Fort Pickens and was chief engineer of Butler's expedition to New Orleans, the capture of which city he planned and the acting mayor of which he became.
As brigadier-general of volunteers, he had a brigade in the Department of the Gulf, and a brigade and division in the Nineteenth Army Corps at the siege of Port Hudson, where he commanded the right wing of Major-General Banks' forces.
In May, 1864, he was given a division in the Eighteenth Army Corps, and later was chief engineer of the Army of the James, and constructed the fortifications at Bermuda Hundred and Deep Bottom.
He was in command of the Eighteenth Army Corps from October to December, 1864, having been made major-general of volunteers.
On the formation of the Twenty-fifth Army Corps (December, 1864) he was placed at its head and remained so, except for one short interval, until it was discontinued in January, 1866.
He occupied Richmond, in April, 1865.
After commanding a district in Texas, he was mustered out of the service, and returned to engineering work in the army.
He became lieutenant-colonel of engineers in 1882.
He had been brevetted major-general in the regular army in 1865.
He died in Philadelphia, March 19, 1884.

First Corps—Army of the Ohio

The Army of the Ohio was organized into three corps on September 29, 1862.
The First was commanded by Major-General A. McDowell McCook.
It bore the chief part in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky (October 8, 1862), and the campaign against Bragg in Kentucky.
On October 24th, it was merged in the Fourteenth Corps, known as the Army of the Cumberland.

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